Nathan Oman, the former singer accused of fraud, sent his personal manager to meet the media yesterday, to make a partial confession on his behalf.

Nathan declined to show himself, but spoke to reporters via a ‘phone in’. He denied claims he had fled to Norway to escape a backlash surrounding the latest fraud claims against him.

It is perhaps Nathan’s smartest move to date, as his most recent appearance before the media on Tuesday (see picture above, of Nathan in white) did little to allay public hostility.

‘I have told him to confess anything from his past. I will bring him to meet you on Monday. He’s in a bad way at the moment, so wasn’t up to coming,’ his manager Cee Anucha Langprasert told reporters.

Cee (in the black jacket, looking cute) said he was worried Nathan might do harm to himself rather than face his troubles. At the close of the press conference, after Nathan had spoken to reporters via his ‘phone-in’, Nathan sent a text message to Cee’s phone, saying: ‘Am Die Forever’.

Police in Amnat Charoen province have called Nathan in for questioning after Nathan’s former live-in housekeeper and her son accused him of defrauding them of B300,000.

Saman Sukserm and her son Jack Athit Koonfai laid a string of complaints against Nathan in Bangkok, and another in Amnat Charoen, their home province.

Nathan’s manager Cee yesterday admitted that Nathan did take their money, despite his client’s earlier denials.

‘He did borrow from them, but it was in the manner of friends who borrow from each other. They all helped each other at times. He has started repaying the money he owes them.’

He is also paying back debts to the Jamaree Yak Cafe Gallery in the Rama IV area, after owners told police that Nathan had made off with B130,000 in shop takings. They say Nathan was a co-shareholder in the place, and they entrusted him with the money.

Cee admits Nathan also borrowed from the family of a young disease victim who was close to the hearts of Thais.

On Friday the girl’s grandmother came forward to claim Nathan had borrowed B100,000 and not paid it back.

Nathan allegedly borrowed 100,000 baht from Nong Aom (Saowanee Rittichot), dubbed affectionately as the Human Pupa, whose plight was aired on television as she battled the genetic skin disease ichthyosis.

Aom, who was confined to a wheelchair, died of lung cancer in March, aged 26. She fought the disease for more than 10 years. Her brave tale of suffering inspired Thais, who took the young woman to their hearts.

Nathan borrowed from the family four years ago, but since Aom’s death had neither returned the money nor paid a visit, her grandmother Chalhong Jannark told the Manager newspaper.

Nathan’s manager C admits Nathan borrowed money from the girl, but urged reporters to ask to Aom’s younger sister, Aam, for the details.

‘Some accounts in the media are inaccurate,’ he told reporters.

‘I have told Nathan that if he has started repaying money he owes to people, it shows that he did in fact borrow from them, and should come clean.’

Nathan is still battling scepticism over the most spectacular claim he makes about himself, that Hollywood is paying him B100 million to appear in a blockbuster.

In July, he told journalists he had spent the past six months in the Arabian desert making The Prince of Red Shoe, a fantasy adventure starring Bruce Willis and Christina Ricci, directed by Wolfgang Peterson for 20th Century Fox.

Webboard sleuths can find no trace of the movie, and a spokesman for the studio, quoted in the media, says it doesn’t exist.

Cee confirmed Nathan was acting in an overseas movie.

'I have seen the contract, though I’d rather not give details at this stage. I will go overseas to talk to the company in the next month or so to find out how much of Nathan’s story is true,’ he said. He would relay his findings to the media.